Post harvest; bane of agrovc [production -Survey

Dr Francis Appiah, a Post Harvest Specialist at the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has called for intensified education on the use of modernised farming technologies to control post harvest losses.

He said the time had come for all hands to come on board to educate farmers on the benefits they would derive from using these technologies to ensure food security on the sub-Saharan Africa and in Ghana as a whole.

“We should not leave the awareness creation aspect to only the technocrats, but everybody must get involved to make sure that our farmers adapt the technology to increase production, reduce post harvest losses, and give us healthy and nutritious produce,” he said.

Dr Appiah was speaking at a two day stakeholders workshop organised in Accra to present and discuss findings of the post harvest loss assessment survey, conducted in two regions in Ghana.

He said post harvest losses are a major threat to food secur